‘so I’m just gonna write aesthetic dick jokes for like two weeks’

Writ­ing post ahead  !

No­vem­ber is com­ing to an end. Some of you might have heard that I chal­lenged my­self to write 30 show episode drafts in 30 days.

So, that was fuck­ing im­pos­si­ble. Which I knew go­ing in. I main­ly put that on my­self so that I would spend Oc­to­ber gen­er­at­ing 30 bits and in­form­ing my­self about sto­ry struc­ture and all that nerd stuff. I was much more suc­cess­ful on that end.

That said, I did write three full episodes, in­clud­ing the one I’m about to fin­ish. I wrote half an episode that I had to aban­don, at least for now, be­cause I’m not smart enough to ex­e­cute it. I also wrote what I’m deem­ing an un­of­fi­cial pi­lot, which sam­ples the hu­mor of the show but large­ly is a plea for Pa­tre­on fund­ing that can be ex­e­cut­ed on a small budget.

It’s not re­al­ly where I want­ed to end this month, I’ll be hon­est. But with­out un­der­stand­ing for my cir­cum­stances, it’s a good start for a project like this. And with un­der­stand­ing for my cir­cum­stances, it’s ac­tu­al­ly pret­ty rad on my part that all the shit that hap­pened this month hap­pened while I was writ­ing that flop of a half episode, that I didn’t write a word for over a week, and I still man­aged to re­turn and just move on to some­thing more suc­cess­ful rather than give up entirely.

So, the next steps. I’m gonna take the first half-ish of De­cem­ber and not work on this any­more. Well, uh, not di­rect­ly. I’m play­ing with cre­at­ing a chap­book for But­ton Poetry’s open sub­mis­sions that’s par­o­dy­ing in­sta­gram aes­thet­ic po­ets, and that stems from a char­ac­ter that’s part of this project. 

So I’m just gonna write aes­thet­ic dick jokes for like two weeks, which let’s face it, I was ba­si­cal­ly put on this earth to do. Af­ter that, I’m go­ing to take the rest of De­cem­ber and fo­cus on edit­ing those four episodes, plus the episode I wrote be­fore that is uhh good con­cept, zero struc­ture, bit of a mess. I’m in­tend­ing to hold au­di­tions dig­i­tal­ly in January.

Per­son­al note … oh wow. My weird lit­tle show about a space princess hid­ing from re­spon­si­bil­i­ty on Earth with her burnout friends, it’s some­thing I’ve want­ed to do and have al­ways had in the back of my mind for over five years now. I be­came used to all the rea­sons I couldn’t do it, be­tween school and life and ill­ness. It was a huge aha mo­ment for me, not that long ago, when I re­al­ized that noth­ing was stop­ping me from do­ing it anymore. 

I think I had this idea for awhile, even when my life opened up and my cog­ni­tive shit be­came man­age­able, that I some­how need­ed to prove my­self on some­thing more prac­ti­cal. Which was in­val­i­dat­ing to all the prac­tice I’ve done over the years, in­clud­ing a ful­ly pro­duced stage play. It was ex­cus­es, to not do what I re­al­ly want­ed. And now I’m like ac­tu­al­ly do­ing it. And now it’s like, oh god, what if I fail? 

Oh god, what if I DON’T fail ?!  a a a a a a a a a a a a ! ! 

So yeah, ter­ri­fy­ing. But in a good way.
 
 

—mel­ony ppenosyne

Flom­mist Mel­ony Ppenosyne is a writer and weird artist type. In the last year alone, she’s trav­eled to Vir­ginia as a com­pet­ing poet, co-writ­ten a play on men­tal ill­ness that is present­ly be­ing pro­duced, and craft­ed a pub­lished es­say check­ing the priv­i­lege and scope of art gal­leries. Copy­right © 2017 Mel­ony Ppenosyne. Im­age grabbed from the OTH­ER show that wasn’t the Gold­en Girls.

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